DAM: Devious Auction Manager
DAM is software that helps manage and enhance your live auctions. It's available for both Mac and PC.
- Keeps track of your donors, consignors and their items.
- Generates item identification tags, winning bid tags, recording forms, and auctioneer cue sheets while preparing for auction day.
- Creates a website to promote your auction.
- Can export a PDF slideshow for projection, or run a slideshow from right inside DAM (Mac only, with appropriate hardware).
- Records winning bids during an auction, and can print invoices one-off as individual bidders need to leave or en masse at the end of the auction.
- Generates a variety of useful documents after the auction: consignment, profit/loss, invoice summary and invoice details reports.
- Supports multiple variable tax rates by item categories.
- Can run in a fault tolerant mode, where data is periodically backed up to secondary media in case of hardware failure.
- Allows bidder categorization so you know who's buying and how much. Helpful for 501(c)(*) groups that need to know member vs. non-member income.
Expected availability is March or April 2012. We are looking for some beta testers—if you're planning to run an auction in western New York in early 2012, contact us (perette@deviousfish.com). We'd be especially happy to help community groups.
Want to know more? Check out the software's manual (not quite complete, but getting there) or help pages.
Image: Colebrook River-Dam on West branch of Farmington River in Colebrook Connecticut. Photo courtesy Army Corps of Engineers.
